Split and stack dead standing wood as firewood - PEP BB woodland.sand.splitandstack

Woops, here's the missing pic from the above post.

This bb! What a challenge! Not because of the labor. Because of the lack of trees in my area. Normal firewood species of trees are processed quickly and in high demand. Green still sometimes! That leaves little old me with so-called garbage wood; aspens. I only had one dead-standing aspen in my yard, so I had to reach out to the community to neighbors who had dead-standing trees they were willing to let me harvest. 28 trees is what it took for 1/2 a face cord!
Because all the trees were from peoples yards, I then had to tidy up all the branches and help get them hauled away or burned.
I chose to stack them in an old pump house that still stands on a new piece of property I bought a few years back, so they would have a roof.

I knocked this one out while at Wheaton Labs last weekend!

I searched for dead standing wood at base camp during the week then felled, split, and stacked on Saturday.
Unfortunately, I misread the directions of this BB, thankfully it was in my favor. I thought I needed a full face cord, but when I had finished stacking everything I felled, I took another look at the requirements and noticed it was only half a face cord!

For reference, the wood racks around the library at WL are one face cord, image 4 below shows it's more than half full.
Measurements at the end.
Math to prove it out:
Given, 70 inches tall = (70/12) feet and 51 inches wide = (51/12) feet; Then:
(70/12)*(51/12)= (70*51)/(12*12)= 3570/144= 24.792   24.792 square feet > 16 square feet \qed
Therefore the minimum of 16 square feet (as half a face cord) has been surpassed.
Further, 24.792 square feet of lumber between 15 and 16inches deep is ~77.47% of a face cord :)


A lot of this was documented in my Commander Thread - copying those images over and adding several more per the requirements


Felling the big tree


Timber


Late Night Splitting


3/4 Full Wood Rack

I really enjoyed this thread.  A lot.  And I appreciate all the pictures.  If I had life to do all over again, I'd be a woodworker.  Whenever I see a piece of wood, all I think about are the possibilities.  

I'm relocating soon and building a small house that's on the grid, but very rural where power outages are common.  That being the case, I want to build my house to also be fully functioning and efficient as an off-grid house, too.  I plan to have a masonry heater as well as a couple of wood stoves.

As I was researching these things, I ran across so many articles about the best woods to burn, the best way to light a fire (top down or bottom up), the best way to stack and store firewood.  "The Best Way to..." is one of the internet's frustrations for folks like me who aren't experienced enough to know what's "best," from what's an opinion, or what's plain nonsense.  There's a lot of conflicting information online, which is one of the reasons I just joined this forum - to ask folks with first hand experience.  Does anyone have any websites, videos, books, etc., I can study so I can move ahead with a firm foundation of knowledge to build on for everything to do with firewood?  (types of wood to burn, stacking, storing, log splitters, chippers, how long you can store firewood, even smokers/smokehouses... just everything.)